I built it.
Twenty years.
You were — Toni, you were in the back — “
“I was in the back because you put me there.
At four-thirty.
For twenty years.
And I wrote the menu.
From her notebook.
At her table.
In her handwriting.
You told a critic you’d developed it ‘traveling.'”
He stopped.
“That was — that’s marketing — “
“The critic’s quote is on page eight, Vincent.
Next to the notebook.
Cordelia’s very thorough.”
Then he did the thing men like Vincent do when the document has turned.
He tried the other door.
“Toni.
The mixer.
I’ve — I’ve felt terrible about that for eleven years.
I couldn’t say it.
I didn’t know how.
But I’ve — “
“You removed the guard.”
“To speed up — the orders were — “
“You removed it.
I asked you to put it back.
Twice.
The second time was the morning of.
And that night at the hospital you told a nurse I’d fallen at home, while I was on the table, so that a machine you’d made dangerous wouldn’t cost you a claim.”
